Sébastien Lorquet schrieb: > This one is based on GTK > > http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9619/access-linux-platform-sdk-released/ > > What do you think of this? > > I'm worried about interoperability. There are a number of different > Linux platforms now, but nothing guarantees applications will be easily > portable across them. So I feel everyone is reinventing the wheel for > every application! Is this really the case?
Looks like it and the signs are that it is not really getting better... LiMo gets more and more traction which is also rumored to use GTK+ but is so far the worst commercial player concerning open source relationship - or did anyone here see LiMo members around? Then there is Android - not exactly GTK+ but aiming at Linux mobile phones. Then there is LiPS. And now there is Nokia buying Trolltech and additionally having Maemo on their side. And a little off from the complete platform/GUI there are all those standardisation bodies that want to push their standards for various reasons. So far the fragmentation is growing and currently I do not see any signs that those competing commercial entities have any will to overcome their business competition and sit together for a second. I think the biggest problem currently is that all the players that want to set their mark in this territory want as well to set their claims with the technology or standard they are proposing. The Linux mobile market is still open, in contrast to the Linux desktop. And it is less complex than a desktop so even moderate companies can define their own "standard", which they did. And now they want to make it "the" standard so that everyone in the future will have to buy their stuff or at least have to use their standard. This is not very productive, leads to fragmentation and does not help many - only the shareholders of the lucky winner of that fight (and luck is meant literally, this is a game of luck or have you seen the better one win in recent years? I just way Win.... :) > seb Cheers nils faerber -- kernel concepts GbR Tel: +49-271-771091-12 Sieghuetter Hauptweg 48 Fax: +49-271-771091-19 D-57072 Siegen Mob: +49-176-21024535 -- _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community